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When Should a Small Business Hire an Executive Team?

Up and Running

It isn’t unusual to act as CEO while also tackling marketing tasks and coordinating operations. The answer depends on what your current operations look like. If you’re in startup mode and have limited working capital to cover your operating expenses , you may be bootstrapping your way through the early days.

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Questions To Ask Before Conducting An Ideation Workshop

YoungUpstarts

by Diane Longmoor, Director of User Experience and a Partner at Fell Swoop. So, your organization is about to design a new product, feature or service: a design ideation workshop is a great way to generate lots of ideas early in the process, bring your project team along and set direction. There’s a time for blue-sky ideation.

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Evolving Customer Needs – Not Technology – Drives Disruption And Innovation

YoungUpstarts

To make personalization affordable, leaders must think completely differently about offerings, create flexible operations – like distributed manufacturing and separate supply chains – and reduce waste. Today, customers want personalized products and services at reasonable prices. That applies even to these first four strategies.

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Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors

NZ Entrepreneur

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Andrew Chen shares his takeaways from the second instalment on Portfolio Management, held in Wellington on 13 May 2021.

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Three Steps To Creating A Startup Mentality In Your Organization

YoungUpstarts

Identify which ones are interested in growth by offering them tools such as books and workshops to help develop their skills, and give them creative freedom to develop their own ideas about what’s best. Step Three: Find Creative Partners. In addition, don’t be afraid to let them fail.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted to give you a rundown of what’s in store, along with particular insight into two of the workshops we’re most excited to have lined up for Gold and VIP attendee s—one session with Jez Humble on implementing continuous delivery and one with Alistair Croll on Lean analytics for corporate entrepreneurs.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Start A PCB Design Firm?

YoungUpstarts

You may have the engineering and design capabilities required to operate this type of business, and you may have the best PCB layout software at your disposal, but you must be proficient in other skills in order to be successful. Strong marketing and sales skills are also necessary to operate a successful PCB design service.

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